Mixed paint



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM FREDRIOK DETWILLEB PASOOE, JAMES MOLIER HAINES, AND JOHN BUTLAND, OF SOUTH EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

MIXED PAINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,004, dated May 5, 1885.

Application filed March 12, 1885. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM F. D. PAS- COE, J AMES M. HAINES, and J OHN BUTLAND, citizens of the United States, residing at South Easton, in the county of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wood-Filling Compounds, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a compound for filling wood used in the manufacture of furniture, carriages, pianos, railway-coaches, 850., the object of the invention being to provide a compound of the character mentioned by the use of which a high polish may be imparted to articles with or without the use of varnish or shellac and by the application 01' but a single coat.

Our invention consists of the following iiigredients, mixed as per the following formula:

steatite, four poupds; kaolin, fourpounds; J apan drier, one pint; alum water, one gill;

stearine, three ounces; varnish, three pints;

carbolic acid, one ounce.

The above ingredients, with the exception of the carbolio acid, are thoroughly mixed and ground together in a paint-mill in the usual manner, resulting in a compound or composition of liquid paste ready for use. The

carbolic acid may then be added, and the fill- ,ing applied to wood or other body, as it is equally well adapted for iron, paper walls, and cloth, with a common paint-brush, and allowed to stand, say, fifteen minutes, or until 5 it becomes fiat and loses its luster, when the filler can be removed with a rag or any other suitable means, leaving, however, sufficient of the filler on the body to act as a surfacer when polishing. About eight hours after the applio cation the filler will have become so hardened that it can be smoothed down evenly with fine sand-paper, after which it will be ready for the coat of varnish, one coat being all that is required.

When it is desired to finish upon the filler without the use of shellac or varnish, the kaolin or mineral clay should be substituted for an equal amount of steatite.

The composition will be light in color; but it may be changed by mixing therewith any well-known coloring-matter, depending upon the color desired to be produced.

Heretofore the wood surfaces to receive a final polish have been given two and three coats of filling and repeated applications of shellac r or varnish, each coat being rubbed down by hand to a smooth surface, requiring considerable time and labor, and causing a waste of a considerable quantity of material. This is obviated by our compound, and in no case is more than one coat of varnish required.

' 'The proportions of the ingredients entering into the compound may be varied in quantity,

as the quality is not at all times uniform. Therefore we do not limit ourselves to the eX- 6 5 act proportions herein stated, but hold ourselves at liberty to make such slight changes in them as may reasonably fall within the scope of our invention.

Having fully described our invention, what 

